several days in advance and secure the higfh 
prices, making- a hig difference in profits 'witii 
very little extra expense. 
The spring at the north being- several weeks 
later than the soutli, plants remain entirely 
dormant that much longer and will endure 
shipment and transplanting in this condition 
with perfect safety and when put in the warm 
soil will spring into a fine growth at once. The 
old foliage of dormant plants is nearly all 
removed by trimming and packing and the 
new roots start immediately so the plant 
becomes established with feeding roots before 
it has foliage to be affected by the sun. 
We take up plants as soon as frost is out of 
the ground — usually the last of March and 
first of April. 
Piortherti growers can not use southern 
plants successf ullj' because they are in fruit in 
the south before ground in the north can be 
fitted for transplanting. While dormant 
plants can be kept even weeks in mild weather 
by heeling in, yet, after they have commenced 
to grow, it is difficult to save them in this way. 
From points as far south as Maryland and 
Kentucky they are obliged to ship as early as 
February and March and even then plants 
have commenced to grow, so it is almost im- 
possible to heel them in so as to keep them 
during the freezing weather of those months 
at the north. If shipments were delayed until 
northern ground could be fitted, the fruit 
would be half grown and at this period there is 
a change in the roots so that they very rarely 
succeed when transplanted at that time. 
THE FIRST AND SECOND FIDDLER. 
The first fiddler is a high-priced fellow. He 
has won a reputation for furnishing fine music 
and he will not and need not play for less than 
$25 per night, — often much more than that. 
They send for him from far and near. He 
takes pride in his business, uses only the desi 
fiddle to be obtained and never furnishes sec- 
ond-class music. He finds a world of pleasure 
in his business, has a delightful home and 
pleasant surroundings, with a good bank 
account, and looks at his whole life work as a 
magnificent entertainment. 
The second fiddler, with which the world 
seems abundantly supplied, plays for his sup- 
per (generally the second table), and picks up 
such odd jobs as he can get a pittance for doing, 
lives in a hovel, wears poor clothes, and sees 
disappointment and gloom everywhere. 
Youaa man, do you see a moral in this com- 
parison? Look around you and see how many 
" second fiddlers " there are in the berry busi- 
ness in your community. Ask your grocer who 
is growing strictly fancy fruit and you will be 
surprised at his answers. 
Do you not see an opening for a neat, clean 
and profitable business? Don't be a wage 
earner all your life, but get the best piece of 
land you can and stock it with thoroughbred 
plants and pitch in. Don't play second fiddle. 
BRAxnvwiNi:. 
If there is anythittg you don't uuder- 
Statld write me full particulars and my expe- 
rience is at your service. It affords me a world 
of pleasure to give pointers and boost a young 
man into place as the "first fiddler" in the 
berry business. 
THE POOR MAN. 
The very poor man is poor because he sur- 
rounds himself with a poor home, on poor soil, 
uses poor tools, poor seeds, poor plants, gives 
poor cultivation and always has a poor crop of 
HAVERtAND. 
poor fruit and sells to poor people who are con- 
tented to buy poor stuff if it's " cheap " and 
thus he remains always and eternally poor. 
THE RICH MAN 
gets rich because he gets tlie best soil, uses the 
best tools, sets the best plants which produces 
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